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HYDERABAD: In yet another blow to CPI (Maoist), two of its prominent figures – central committee member Pulluri Prasad Rao alias Chandranna and Telangana state committee member Bandi Prakash alias Prabhath – surrendered before DGP B Shivadhar Reddy in Hyderabad on Tuesday. The surrender, carried out without arms or much fanfare, marks the exit of…
RAIPUR: In another major surrender of Maoists in bulk, 21 Maoists including 13 women gave up violence with 18 weapons in Kanker district of Bastar division in Chhattisgarh on Sunday. The cadres, who were part of the Keshkal division (North Sub-Zonal Bureau), laid down arms under the state’s flagship ‘Poona Margham: Rehabilitation through Reintegration’ initiative,…
BASTAR: Wanted Maoist commander Rupesh, alias Takkalapalli Vasudev Rao (Satish), pledged on Friday to “work for and with the people in a constitutional manner” as he led a group of 210 PLGA fighters with a combined bounty of Rs 9 crore on their heads in Chhattisgarh’s largest mass surrender in its history of Left-wing extremism.Representatives…
The Manjhis, Chalkis and members of tribal communities from across Bastar, welcomed the surrendered Maoists with red roses in Jagdalpur. NEW DELHI: The recent developments in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region mark a significant turning point in Country’s ongoing battle against Naxalism, a form of left-wing extremism that has plagued parts of the country for decades. The…
HYDERABAD/NAGPUR: When Mallojula Venugopal Rao joined the state public relations department in undivided Andhra Pradesh’s Adilabad as an apprentice after graduation, he could not have imagined spending 35 years of his life as a Maoist outlaw.On Tuesday, as India’s five-decade battle against Left-wing extremism turned another corner, Venugopal — known by aliases Bhupathi, Sonu, Vivek…
RAIPUR: In one of the biggest surrenders and a setback to the outlawed CPI (Maoist), 103 Maoists—including several cadres carrying rewards totalling over Rs 1.06 crore, surrendered before senior police and paramilitary officials in insurgency-hit Bijapur district of Bastar division in Chhattisgarh on Thursday. Officials described the mass surrender, held on Gandhi Jayanti, as not…
HYDERABAD: The banned CPI (Maoist)’s central committee has ordered senior neta Mallojula Venugopal, 69, to immediately surrender his weapons, warning that People’s Guerrilla Army would forcibly seize them if he failed to comply.Venugopal, also known as Sonu and Bhupati, recently expressed readiness to lay down arms. Party netas dismissed his remarks as false propaganda aimed…
NEW DELHI: CPI(Maoist), in a purported press statement signed by its top leader ‘Abhay’ – the nom de guerre used by senior-most politburo and central committee member Mallojula Venugopal Rao – has offered to lay down arms and enter into a temporary ceasefire.Pushed to the brink by sustained counter-Naxal operations in ‘core’ areas deep inside…
